Route 37 was first legislated in 1927 in two sections: one running from Trenton to White Horse along the current U. S. Route 206 alignment that replaced part of Pre-1927 Route 2 and the other running from Lakehurst to Point Pleasant that replaced part of Pre-1927 Route 18 between Lakehurst and Toms River.

Route 37 eastbound at County Route 549 Spur ( New Jersey ) | County Route 549 Spur / County Route 571 ( New Jersey ) | County Route 571 ( Fischer Boulevard ) in Toms River, New Jersey | Toms RiverPrior to 1927, the route between present-day Route 70 in Lakehurst and present-day County Route 527 in Toms River was a part of Pre-1927 Route 18, which was legislated in 1923 to run from Camden to Toms River.

In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 37 was legislated to run from Route 27 and Route 30 ( now U. S. Route 1 Business, U. S. Route 206, and Route 31 ) in Trenton to Route 35 ( now Route 88 ) in Point Pleasant, passing through White Horse, Allentown, Lakehurst, Toms River, and Seaside Heights.

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 37 was legislated to run along its current alignment from Route 70 in Lakehurst to Route 35 in Seaside Heights.

This restriction was dropped for special occasions, as in the case of the German dirigible airship Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937.

Saxton was widely praised across South Jersey for his efforts to remove Fort Dix from the Pentagon's base realignment and closure lists in 1989 and 1991, McGuire Air Force Base from the list in 1993, and Lakehurst Naval Air Station from the list in 1995.

Hangar No. 1 at Lakehurst was used to construct the USS Shenandoah ( ZR-1 ).

This was his first time commanding a trip to Lakehurst.

Thomas B. Barlow ( July 9, 1896 in Trenton, New Jersey – September 26, 1983 in Lakehurst, New Jersey ) was one of the first professional basketball players.

Lakehurst Mall was the first regional shopping complex in the northern Chicago suburb county of Lake County.

After several years of decline, Lakehurst closed in 2001, and was demolished in 2004.

The mixed-use ( commercial / office / residential ) development including Lakehurst Mall was built to service this new population.

Initially, Arthur Rubloff & Co. of Chicago was the management and leasing agent for Lakehurst.

The Jacobs Group sold Lakehurst in the summer of 1998 ; the price was $ 30 million, a little less than that of the sale price in 1982.

The Navy's lighter-than-air program was conducted at Lakehurst through the 1930s.

Prior to this event, NAS Lakehurst was the center of airship development in the United States and housed three of the U. S. Navy's four rigid airships, ( ZR-1 ) Shenandoah, ( ZR-3 ) Los Angeles, and ( ZRS-4 ) Akron.

Airship Patrol Squadron FIFTEEN ( ZP-15 ), a subordinate unit of Fleet Airship Wing ONE at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey was subsequently based at NAS Glynco and was the principal based unit during World War II.

Airship pilot training for previously designated heavier-than-air Naval Aviators from the fixed-wing and rotary-wing communities was conducted by the Airship Training Unit ( ZTG ) at NAS Glynco, which had moved from NAS Lakehurst in 1954.

One well-known newsreel found on the internet is a silent film with Pathe footage of the first 1936 landing at Lakehurst and Hearst News of the Day Newsreel footage of the disaster, called a " Pathegram " by Eugene Castle of Castle Films.

# Realign Fort Dix, NJ, by relocating Equipment Concentration Site 27 to the New Jersey Army National Guard Mobilization and Training Equipment Site joint facility at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Through rail freight service is provided by Conrail Shared Assets Operations in the form of a freight train which runs between South Amboy and Lakehurst via Red Bank.

However the age of the dirigible ended following the destruction by fire of the zeppelin Hindenburg just before landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 35 of the 97 people aboard.

Pruss, however, suffered extensive burns and had to be taken out by ambulance to Paul Kimball Hospital in Lakehurst.

* 2005 The United States Department of Defense announced that Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst would be affected by a Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) action, merging it with two neighboring military bases, McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix, establishing Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

However, by virtue of the same BRAC 2005 legislation, the 305th Air Mobility Wing not only controls air operations at McGuire AFB, but also those at Naval Support Activity Lakehurst ( with the exception of the test strip ).

* 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

* October 12 – October 15 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* September 4 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.

Lakehurst is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

Lakehurst is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.

Lakehurst is located on the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Southern Division Main Line.

Lakehurst is being considered as the southern terminus of the planned New Jersey Transit Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex Line, which would closely follow the CNJ line.

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Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg | " Hindenburg " ( DLZ129 ) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey | NJ on May 6, 1937.

Dillon began his education at Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey which he attended at the same time as the three Rockefeller brothers Nelson, Laurance, and John.

* May 6 – The Hindenburg disaster occurs when the German dirigible Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed at the end of a transatlantic flight while attempting to dock with a mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Route 37 begins at the Lakehurst Circle intersection with Route 70 in Lakehurst, heading east on a four – lane divided highway.

The Hindenburg disaster, occurred on May 6, 1937, the German zeppelin Hindenburg arriving from Frankfurt am Main caught fire at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

Portions of the township were taken to form Lakehurst on April 7, 1921.

It would run on a 40. 1-mile rail corridor and would provide diesel commuter rail service from Monmouth Junction ( South Brunswick ), where the Jamesburg Branch partially joins the Northeast Corridor ( NEC ), to Lakehurst.

On 11 October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights, leaving Friedrichshafen, Germany, at 07: 54 on 11 October 1928, and arriving at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 15 October.

At Liberty's birthday party there were two Lakehurst students urinating on his car.

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg disaster took place two hours before air time, and The March of Time created a segment that focused on the history of airship travel and ended with the news of the disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* DeadMalls. com on Lakehurst Mall

Since the 1950s, aviation boatswain's mates have been trained at Lakehurst to operate catapults and arresting systems on aircraft carriers.

Previously known as Naval Air Station Lakehurst, the installation is most famous as the site of the Hindenburg disaster on 6 May 1937.

Despite the notoriety and well documented nature of this incident, today there is a simple memorial that denotes the location of the crash at then-NAS Lakehurst in the field behind the large airship hangars on base.

* 2010 Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst ( NAES Lakehurst ) is disestablished on 13 Apr 2010.